Impeoyed pea-shellee



STEPHENv Estrenar PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Mar/,0+ Jozef tm/2Mb .LnmPafemNa 77,683, ai zMay 5,1868.

Inrncvsn' PEs-siiErase,

To AEL WHOM IT MAY CONCERNE Beit known that I,'STEPH-EN Usrrcn, of thectyand county et Philadelphia, and State o f Pennsyranifa,

have inventeda new and useful Improvement in Pea-Shellers -and I do here-hy declare that the followrngis a full and exact description thereOL'r'eferenoebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of vreference marked thereon.

The nature oi my invention consists, in the first-placen--in the coniliinat'ioncf longitudinal strips with, the

hopper of the pea-sheller, to form openings through'whiclithepea-pods are'e'ondnc'ted, to the bottom of the hoppenupon .which they fall parallel 4with eachother, sc asl to cause then; to euterbene'aththe,shellingfrollers en dwise. It consists, in thc second p'l'aco, in annulardepressions in the lower roller, so arranged as to coincido pwith the openings between said strips, to facilitatsthepods passing straight forward between therollers', to prevent-them crowding each other. In the accompanying drawings', which mali-e a part of this specification-' Figure 1 is 'a plan ofthe Sheller. l

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section,`at the line :i: a: of 1.

Figure 3 is a front elevation:l i

Like letters in all the guresindicnte the saine pnrts.

, A is a' casting, which hasn vertical chute, sa, toseparate theshelled peas fr oin. the pods 'as-thenlclpnlss between the rollers B and B', vertical jaws b b, which support the journals c of the rollers,nnd ears d d fon i fastening .the-'shellerto a table or-bench, the lower ear d being provided with a'clampin'g-screw, C.- 'The vrollers B and--B are geared together-by means of .the spurwheels D and D-.-' E is an inclined hopper, for feeding the' unshelled peas to the rollers. There arestrips e,.of tin or other suitable materinhso arranged as to' form longifAA tudinal openings f, through which the unshelledpeas fall upon the bottom, g, of' the hopper, parallel with each' other, and :rt-right angles tothe shelling-'rollers Band B-, so as to enter between4 them` endwise. Thse strips,- I solder at their front'en'ds to the front, k', of the hopper, and turn Athe rear ends down, and solder .them to the 4 under side of the bottom, g "Lhe strips are elevated above the bottom-more than-the thickness'ot` 'the'unshelled p ods, to allow the. latter toadvan'ce to and between thev rollersl B and'B, without being crowded by the pods- -form"annulardepressions iin the-lower. roller B', as'seen i'n'iigs. 2 and 3. Y

above the strips, The connectionA may bernade, however", in any convenient manner. 'And-- instead of strips,

wire maybe used, their ends being confined' by soldering or inserting theirrear ends in holes inthe bottom, qi

' andtheirv front endslin holes in the front, z, fof 'the hopper.. 'To facilitato the pods passing straight forward f between tho rollers'B and B', so as not to crowd Vcach other Ilts-they descend onthe bottom, y, of the hopper, I

` f The operation is as follows: A handful ofthe unshelled podsV is laid ou'fthe strips e; the lower-iones of which fall through the spaces f, and restan the bottom, g,-of the hopper, parallel, or nearly so,-wi th each other,r tlxirifront ends entering between the rollers BfandB, which draw the pods through as vthe handle F is turnedin the direction 'of the arrow. The shelled pods pass out in front of the rollers, and lthe peas down the chutea, whence they fall in.a receiving-vessel. The strips c not only canse thepeas to 'fall' en the bottom, g, parallel' with each other, hut also relicve'the bottom ones from the weight of the others, sons 'to cause them to slide. forward freely as they are drawn bythe rollers. They valso prevent theshelled peas'from flying up as they are forced out of the pods.

What I claimy asmy invention, and desire to secure by Letters Pnt'e'n, is

1. "lhe combination and arrangement of the' longitudinal stripse with the hopper E, substantially iu the manner abo-ve described, vand for the purposes spccied.-

V2. The combination of the roller B v'rith the hopper E, when said 'rollerliiisnnnul'arl depressions which i coincide with the spaces substantially as and forthepnrpose set-forth.

In testimony that the above is my invention, I havel hercuntoset my bano-.and nliixed ny seal, this sixth v day of April, 1868.

. STEPHEN Us'rIcK. [L 5.]

Witnesses:

'Jenn Wens,

' J. M. Surname.. 's 

